Confirmed Speakers

The Organizing and International Advisory Committee is planning an outstanding scientific program. We have confirmed the following globally recognized scientists to give keynote presentations: (click photos below for more details on each speaker)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Judi Allen, Professor of Immunobiology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Michael S. Diamond, The Herbert S. Gasser Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
Lalita Ramakrishnan, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Ellen Rothenberg, Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, Caltech, Pasadena, USA

INVITED SPEAKERS

Kristina Adams-Waldorf, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Judith Allen, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Maninjay Atianand, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States

Glen Barber, University of Miami, Miami, United States

Ralph Baric, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, United States

Betsy Barnes, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, United States

Dan Barouch, Harvard Medical School, United States

Alina Baum, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, United States

Sonja Best, NIH, Rocky Mountains Labs, Hamilton, United States

Estelle Bettelli, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, United States

Catherine Blish, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, United States

Igor Brodsky, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States

Helen Y Chu, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Jörn Coers, Duke University, Durham, United States

Antonio del Sol, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Michael Diamond, Washington University, St Louis, United States

Marlène Dreux, INSERM, Lyon, France

Eleanor Fish, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Kate Fitzgerald, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, United States

Sarah L. Gaffen, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States

Chris Garcia, Stanford University, Stanford, United States

Sara Hamilton, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States

Jorge Henao-Mejia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States

Kristin Hogquist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States

Stacy Horner, Duke University, Durham, United States

Curt Horvath, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States

Christopher Hunter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States

Jennifer Hyde, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Ruaidhri Jackson, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States

Simon Jones, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Jonathan Kagan, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States

Eiryo Kawakami, Department of Artificial Intelligence Medicine, Grad. Sch. of Med., Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Nikki Klatt, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States

Robyn Klein, Washington University, St. Louis, United States

Venkatesh Gary Krishnan, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, United States

Vijay K. Kuchroo, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, United States

Warren J. Leonard, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA

David Levy, NYU Langone, New York, United States

P’ng Loke, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States

Jennifer Lund, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States

Mandy McGeachy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States

Andrew McKenzie, MRC, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Daniel McVicar, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, United States

Vineet D. Menachery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, United States

Anna Molofsky, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, United States

Kathleen Neuzil, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States

Timothy Nice, Oregon and Health Sciences University, Portland, United States

Mariko Okada, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Selinda Orr, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Chandrashekhar Pasare, Cincinnati Children’s, Ohio, United States

Louis Picker, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, United States

Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anne Puel, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States

Lalita Ramakrishnan, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gwendalyn Randolph, Washington University, St. Louis, United States

Barbara Rehermann, NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, United States

Boris Reizis, NYU Langone, New York, United States

Aaron Ring, Yale, New Haven, United States

Ellen Rothenberg, Caltech, Pasadena, United States

John Schoggins, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States

Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States

Gregory F. Sonnenberg, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, United States

George Stark, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States

Daniel Stetson, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Naeha Subramanian, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, United States

Mehul Suthar, Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta, United States

Reiko Tanaka, Imperial College London, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, London, UK

Benjamin TenOever, Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine, Sinai, United States

Jenny Ting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States

Shannon Turley, Genentech, San Francisco, United States

Monika Wolkers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Joshua Woodward, University of Washington, Seattle, United States

Ivan Zanoni, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States

Steven Ziegler, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, United States